ARIN and Root Name Servers

[Jim Fleming]

For people not familiar with why Root Name Servers
are important to ARIN, you have to look at...

	Domain Names

Yes, I said domain names. Imagine that. ARIN
may have something to do with domain names.

Contrinuing, part of the IP address allocation
process is a delegation of a zone from the
psuedo Top Level Domain (IN-ADDR.ARPA)
to the registry or ISP handling reverse resolution.

Reverse resolution is like phone number to
name lookup. In other words, given an IP address
what is the domain name. Normally the Domain
Name System does the opposite. It converts
names to numbers.

The ARPA Top Level Domain is not any different
from any other Top Level Domain from a registry
and nameserver point of view. The Root Name
Servers must direct queries for names like
the following to the proper name servers.

	12.12.55.55.IN-ADDR.ARPA

Evolution of the Root Name Servers and especially
the NEW TRUE Root Name Servers (RFC 2010)
is very important to the stability of the Internet.

Therefore, ARIN people and people involved
in this discussion should be fully aware of
any evolution in that arena.

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

e-mail:
JimFleming at unety.net
JimFleming at unety.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)